Overlooked Quotes - Page 6

• I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Tragedy, Important

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• Well, maybe there are one or two things about the double jeopardy concept that are overlooked. I could be charged with violating my probation. I could be charged for illegal possession of a firearm or violating his civil rights if I did kill him. But when you're making a movie, there's only so much that you can do. I know that some people, while thoroughly enjoying it, have said, It's a little bit implausible. But it's such great fun.

  Ashley Judd

  Fun, Rights, Two

  "A list at last" by Bob Strauss, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2000.

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• The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed on the most "nutritionally complete" formula fail to do as
  well as babies fed human milk. Even more than margarine, formula stands as the ultimate test product of nutritionism and a fair index of its hubris.

  Michael Pollan

  Baby, Tests, Milk

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• [From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

  Dorothy Parker

  Might, Hello, Window

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• Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Europe, Civilization

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.243, Vintage

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• No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Appreciation, Men, Long

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.305

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• The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Mind, Different, Ephemeral

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Pride, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.216

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• The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Mean

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.22, Knopf

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• This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Opposites, Views

  "The Sickness unto Death". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Part Two: Despair Is Sin, pp. 114 - 115, 1849.

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• I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.

  Pamela Anderson

  Pamela Anderson (2004). “Star: A Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone's love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.

  John Welwood

  Giving, Perfect, Scary

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Teenager, Spring

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• And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,-sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out into the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This contributed to the passing of the Pure Food Act of 1906.

  Upton Sinclair

  Science, Men, Law

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• Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Years, Issues, Oscars

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• Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for nature therapy, as you do for the latest antidepressant pharmaceuticals. But parents, educators, and health workers need to know what a useful antidote to emotional and physical stress nature can be. Especially now.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Stress, Healing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.45, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear -- and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

  Ann Curry

  Thinking, Voice, Differences

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• The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.

  Roger Angell

  Different, Catchers, Great Things

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• I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same kind of acting. When I go into a picture I have only one character to look after. If the author didn't do him justice, I try to add whatever the creator of the part overlooked.

  William Powell

  Jobs, Writing, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

  Lloyd Banks

  Dark, Rapper, Trying

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• There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.

  John Welwood

  Giving, Scary, Secret

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Fate, Knights, Optimism

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• Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.

  Margaret Whiting

  Stars, People, Singing

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• An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

  Vernon Howard

  Gratitude, Challenges, Feelings

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• I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

  Gordon Strachan

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Gordon Strachan: 'And people think I've got a problem with the press...'". Interview with Richard Rae, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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